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Ann Rosendale

Ann Rosendale

MDiv, Senior University Pastor and Vice President for Mission Integration

Augustana University

Ann Rosendale, MDiv, serves as Senior University Pastor and Vice President for Mission Integration at Augustana University, her alma mater. She is an alumna of the LECNA Fellows Program, a certified diversity advocate and trained Braver Angels moderator. She also holds a certificate in Interfaith Leadership from Interfaith America.

Published Articles

Reflection

VLHE—Wednesday Morning Sacred Pause

Ann Rosendale

No. 62 · Fall 2025

Rosendale draws on Esther 4:14 and the Lutheran practice of holding death and resurrection together — with “and” as the hardest word — to argue that the calling of Lutheran higher education for “just such a time as this” requires us to remember and name out loud that ours are places where God is at work.
Book Review

Unconventional Wisdom and Talking about God: A Review of Beckstrom’s Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age

Ann Rosendale

No. 53 · Spring 2021

Rosendale reviews Brian Beckstrom’s Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age, recommending its diagnosis of the gap between espoused and perceived Lutheran identity at ELCA schools and its prescription—Trinitarian Missiological Ecclesiology and a campus-wide willingness to talk explicitly about God.

Ann Rosendale

Published Articles

VLHE—Wednesday Morning Sacred Pause

Unconventional Wisdom and Talking about God: A Review of Beckstrom&rsquo;s Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age

Unconventional Wisdom and Talking about God: A Review of Beckstrom’s Leading Lutheran Higher Education in a Secular Age